KISS

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For KISS, it was all about the spectacle. With a fire-breathing, blood-spitting demon bass player whose guitar was shaped like a battleaxe; a lead guitarist from another world (Jendell); the Star Child on rhythm guitar and lead vocals; and the Cat Man creating the beats on an elevating drum kit; and all of them wearing seven-inch leather heels on a stage loaded with enough pyrotechnics to end the world, going to a KISS concert was about the experience as much as it was about the music. From day one, KISS was ready for the arena as they were ordered by city ordinance to play in larger venues because their show was too loud for the smaller clubs during the androgynous early ‘70s.